Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Work is love made visible.
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More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
No human creature can give orders to love.
To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.
